License-holding device



C. H. FAWCEIT.

LICENSE HOLDING DEVlCE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, I919.

1 ,330,068. Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

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CHARLES H. FAWCE'IT, OF INDEPENDENCE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO INTEBSTATEEVER- LICENSE COMPANY, OF INDEPENDENCE, IOWA, A CORPORATION OEIOWA.

LICENSE-HOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed May 16, 1919. Serial No. 297,647.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. FAWon'r'r, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Independence, Buchanan county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in License-Holding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in license holding devices, and the object of my improvement is to supply in a license holding box or closed. container therefor, means within the box for releasably securingthe' license card therein, and also supplying an instrument adapted for insertion into'the, box to release said securing means after mutilating the card, and also operable to eject-the card from the holder. 1

.This object I have accomplished by the means which. arehereinafter described and claimed,.and which are. illustrated in the accompanying. drawings,. in. which Figures 1 and 2 are top plan views of the box containing a license card, Fig. 2 showing the card holder released and partially withdrawn from the box by the operation of an instrument' of special construction, parts in both figures being broken away; Fig. 3 is an under plan view of said box and its contents .as detached from the base-plate; Fig. i is a Fig; 8 is a perspective detail view ofthe instrument employed to mutilate'the license card, release and propel the same from the box.

I Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

- The numeral 5 denotes a license card, such as may be used for the licensing of a vehicle,

and is made of lacerable material, such as :paper or thin cardboard. A closed box composed of a casin 1, whose. open top is closed by a plate of glass 4 supported on- 1nterior' shelves 16, has horizontally flanged parts 2 receivable under folded-over parts .2, .-0f. a ase-plate 2 aid o d dv part being permanently brazed or secured upon said flanges and both having perforations-3 to, receive bolts to secure the device to a vehicle.

One end of the box 1 has a longitudinal slot through which the card-holder 15 may be passed from without into the box. The license card 5 is fitted within'the upraised flanges of said holder before the latter is placed in the box. Across the open bottom of the box is fixed a medial transverse bar 13 held in spaced end sockets 14. Between said sockets, a longitudinally directedbarspring 12 is medially mounted on the bar 13 with its numbers concave upwardlytobear at their extremities upon opposite end parts of'the bottom of the'holder 15,'thus-resiliently supporting the latter and'preventing rattling or play of same withinthe box.

One member of saidspring is somewhat end of the box from the said slot, saidkeyhole being ordinarily covered by ,a movable shield 10.

The card-holder 15 is provided with a medial longitudinal slot 6 near one end, the walls of said slot at oppositeendsand sides thereof being offsetto provide the rectangular notches 7 and 8 respectively. This slot 6 is under and parallel with the axis prolonged inwardly of the keyhole 9 or'the cylindrical shaft 17 of an instrument 18 a when the latter is inserted throughsaid keyhole. For purposes of'convenience, it

will hereinafter be denominated the key 18.

This key has a terminal ward 19, preferably 7 provided with one sharpened edge for a. purpose to be described.

When said key has been inserted intothe box its full'length above the'card 5, and

with its ward 7 rotated a quarter revolution,

the ward is forced through the card'and downwardly through the notch 7 to a vertical position in which it engages anddepresses the adjacent member of said spring 2, releasing it from the stop 11. *The key i a device insertible in said boxing slidably is then pulled outwardly until its Ward arrives at the opposite end of said slot, in its course the sharpened edge of the ward lacerating and mutilating the card 5 as indicated in said Fig; 2. The key is then rocked in the same direction enough to cause its ward to enter and engage the other notch 8', and as the spring-member is disengaged from the stop 11, the key may be pushed back inwardly into the box as shown in said Fig. 2, pushing the card holder partly out of the box. The key may then be withdrawn as it has some play within the box. The mutilated card is then removed from the holder, having been rendered incapable of further use or alteration,

This device is simple and easily operated,

and effectively prevents illicit alteration and re-use of a license card after the expiration of the term of said card.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters .Patent, is:

1. In combination, a box, a card-holder therein, a lacerable card in said holder, and

and rockingly, and adapted after insertion, when rocked andrmoved slidingly, to lacerate said card.

. 2. In combination, a slotted box, a cardholder movable through said box and its slot, a lacerable card in said holder, and a device insertible in said boxing, and movable' therein, adapted when rocked and their moved longitudinally in one direction to lacerate the card, and at the limit of the lat ter movement movable to engage said holder to propel the latter through said slot when the locking-means from the card-holder,

and third, to push the card-holder out- -wardly through said slot.

4. In combination, a box having a slot in one end and an orifice in its opposite end, a card-holder movable through said slot and box, a lacerable card removably mounted in said card-holder, releasable resiliently-com trolled lockinganeans in said box for look ing the card-holder in one position, and a device insertible through said orifice and adapted when manipulated appropriately, to successively first lacerate said card, second, engage said card-holder-and simultaneously engage and release said locking-means, and third, propel the card-holder through said slot. V "1 t 5. In combination, a box having. a slot in one end and an orifice in its opposite end, a card-holder movable through said slot and box, a lacerable card removably mounted in said card-holder, a resilient catch in said box adapted to engage and lock said holder 7 in one position, said holder having a proj ection, said resilient element engaging said projection, and a key-shaped instrument insertible into the boxing through said orifice,

said instrument havin a ward rovidedthe box, a lacerable card removably mounted in said card-holder, said card-holder having an L-shaped slot beneath said card, a keyshaped instrument insertible through said orifice, adapted when turned, to puncture the card with its ward, the ward entering theL-part of the slot and then movable lon gitudinally of the slot when the instrument is moved outwardly to longitudinally lacerate the card.

7. In combination, a box having a slot in one end and an orifice in its opposite end, a card-holder insertible throu h said slot into the box, a lacerable card removably mounted in saidcard-holder, said card holder having a slot beneath said card, the slot being straight, alined longitudinally with said orifice and its wall indented in two places, a key -shaped instrument insertible through said orifice into the boxing above the card longitudinally over said slot, having a sharpened ward which, when the instrument is turned, moved longitudinally outwardly, again turned, and moved longitudinally inwardly to pass into one ofthe 8. In combination, a box having'a' slot in one end and an orifice in its opposite end,a

a slot beneath the card with wall-notches, an

instrument insertible through said orifice having a part protrusible into a notch of said slotwhen turned to puncture and lacerate the card, a stop fixed on said cardholderadjacent to the slot, and a resilient catch under said slot releasably engaged indentations, will traverse, the slot, lacerate the card, engage the other indentation, and then propel the card-holder in one direction,

v card-holder insertible through said slot into 7 with said stop, said instrument when farther moved, being adapted to engage and release the catch from said stop while engaging another notch of said slot, the instrument then being operable to propel the card-holder in one direction.

9. In combination, a box, an orificed cardholder slidably mounted therein and withdrawable therefrom and having a stop-projection abutting upon its orifice, a platespring fixed in said boxin with one end releasably contacting with the card-holder to exercise tension thereupon in one direction and also engaged with said stop-projection to lock the card-holder when within the box, and means insertible through the orifice of said card-holder, movable relatively to the card-holder and said plate-spring to engage and disengage the spring from said stop, permitting withdrawal of the card-holder from the box.

10. In combination, a box, a lacerable card removably mounted therein, separable resiliently-controlled coengaged means for securing the card within the box, and a lacerat-' ing and releasing device adapted for difierent successive movements in the box relative to the card and said securing means, to be actuated to successively lacerate the card, operate said securing means to release the card therefrom, and then propel the card from the box.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 12th day of May, 1919.

CHARLES FAWCETT. 

